Hird anxious for ASADA saga to end

Essendon coach James Hird admits the AFL club's damning internal review of its leadership during the supplements saga has made difficult reading.

With the Bombers preparing for a huge top-of-the-table clash with fellow unbeaten side Geelong at Docklands on Friday night, they have again endured a tough week.

Hird would not say which players had or had not been interviewed by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency (ASADA) as part of their probe into the Bombers - a process which was scheduled to start this week.

And former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski's report released on Monday was highly critical of club leaders, especially for their lack of control over the controversial supplements program.

Hird says he is looking forward to the whole process being finalised, which will then allow him and all at the club to speak freely about the issue.

"If you can give us three or four weeks until the ASADA interviews are done, until the AFL and ASADA put out their reports, you'll get a pretty open football club," Hird said on Thursday.

"We'll be able to talk about everything that's happened, rather than at the moment speak about bits and pieces which won't make a lot of sense."

Hird has again marvelled at how his players have set aside any concerns they may have about questionable supplements some may have used last year in the program under investigation by ASADA and the AFL.

They have won their opening six matches and shown no on-field ill-effects of the probe.

"They're playing really good football, they're training really hard.

"The one thing we've spoken about as a group is to keep our training standard up. If we keep our training standard up, that will go into our games. We've been able to do that."